Uruguayan Sign Language

Uruguayan Sign Language
Native to	Uruguay
Native speakers	7,000 (2009)[1]
Language family	Paraguay–Uruguay Sign Language family?
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ugy
Glottolog	urug1238[2]

Uruguayan Sign Language, or Lengua de señas uruguaya (LSU), is the deaf sign language of Uruguay, used since 1910. It is not intelligible with neighboring languages, though it may have historical connections with Paraguayan Sign Language.

References

↑ Uruguayan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uruguayan Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Uruguayan Sign Language Dictionary - Uruguayan Sign Language Dictionary
The Uruguayan Deaf Community - Elizabeth Parks & Holly Williams, SIL International (2013)

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[e18-1] Uruguayan Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uruguayan Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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